4 Check your installation

After you've run make install, you should check that your installation has all the correct permissions and group ownerships by running the check_perms script. First change to the installation (i.e. $prefix) directory, then run the bin/check_perms program. Don't try to run bin/check_perms from the source directory; it will only run from the installation directory.

If this reports no problems, then it's very likely <wink> that your installation is set up correctly. If it reports problems, then you can either fix them manually, re-run the installation, or use bin/check_perms to fix the problems (probably the easiest solution):

You need to become the user that did the installation, and that owns all the files in $prefix, or root.
Run bin/check_perms -f
Repeat previous step until no more errors are reported!